Life News did a story last week about today’s pro-life action day at Missouri’s State Capitol and a bill proposed in the MO General Assembly this year to help prevent coerced abortions. They highlighted an actual coerced abortion case that took place at the St. Louis Planned Parenthood a few weeks ago:
According to the group [Missouri Right to Life], a 16 year-old girl was the victim of an attempted coerced abortion by her mother and aunt.
The three were at the Planned Parenthood abortion center when the teen apparently called police by dialing 911 on her cell phone.
“The police went into the facility and arrested the aunt. The mother then realized that it wasn’t so simple to force her will upon her daughter,” the group said.
An MRL rep. asked the question, “How many more times might this be happening across the state of Missouri?” Indeed. How many women who would otherwise love to raise the child conceived in their womb, make a final decision to abort after heavy pressure – even threats – from family members or significant others? There have been some cases where reluctant grandparents have literally kidnapped their pregnant daughters in order to drive them to an abortion clinic. And we know from Tiller’s death camp in Kansas that very young girls have had their situation “taken care of”, probably against their will, by the older men who have been sexually abusing them.
In light of this new legislation to criminalize these forced or “coerced” abortions, pro-abortion forces are suddenly concerned about the private decision making conversations between pregnant women and their spouses/boyfriends/friends/family members eventhough the pro-choice, feminist movement traditionally touts abortion as the right of a woman to control her own body, independent of what others may suggest, or how they feel about it. It’s often defended as a “private decision between a woman and her doctor.” Men certainly should have no say in the matter, let alone parents or other family members – especially if they suggest going through with the pregnancy.
Missouri’s proposed bill focuses solely on those who personally threaten women to have an abortion, or else, but it’s not just individuals who pressure women to choose death. Today’s society still sends the message that for ordinary women motherhood is no longer desirable and is certainly not seen as a “successful” use of a woman’s talents.
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